Just because I didn't get around to posting this yesterday, here's my 18w1d ultrasound video.
Twin A is pretty clear, but Twin B is just so far buried that it's hard to get a good shot of her. But we think she might have been sucking her thumb at some point.
But we did see an explanation as to why I'm not really feeling kicks yet, they're too busy kicking each other to kick me!
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
Thursday, December 22, 2011
One Year, Eleven Weeks
A year ago, I experienced the worst day of my life. And oddly, I'm not really feeling it today. I expected to be more emotional but I'm fairly blase so far. I reserve the right to retract that and become a blubbering mess at any point of course.
Woke up early and had some orange juice because the sugar in orange juice makes babies wiggle. I wanted to see as much movement as I could on the ultrasound.
Ok, so here's what's going on in there. We have heartbeats of 161/164 and measurements of 11w0d/10w6d. No, I didn't keep track of which numbers went with which baby. As long as they're healthy and pretty much even, I don't worry about those details.
BUT, and with this pregnancy, there seems to always be a "but", I still have a decent sized blood clot that could bleed again. I've gone 10 days without a bleed, which is a record, and we'll just have to see if that trend continues. I was really hoping to see the hematoma all cleared up and no longer an issue, but no, it's still there. It's not a disaster, and it's really fairly small, people have had a lot worse throughout their entire healthy pregnancies, so I just have to hope for the best.
So just as with every other appointment, I'm told that I have 2 healthy babies, but a blood clot to go with them, and we'll just have to wait and see.
Here's the best screen capture I could get that showed both babies and the blood clot all in one. The main blood clot that they measured is that little dark spot at the top of the circled area. I'm not 100% certain that the rest of those spots are clots, they might be something to do with the cervix.
Ok, pictures are great, but what we really want is VIDEO!!! Here's the best 90 seconds or so of babies wiggling.
Woke up early and had some orange juice because the sugar in orange juice makes babies wiggle. I wanted to see as much movement as I could on the ultrasound.
Ok, so here's what's going on in there. We have heartbeats of 161/164 and measurements of 11w0d/10w6d. No, I didn't keep track of which numbers went with which baby. As long as they're healthy and pretty much even, I don't worry about those details.
BUT, and with this pregnancy, there seems to always be a "but", I still have a decent sized blood clot that could bleed again. I've gone 10 days without a bleed, which is a record, and we'll just have to see if that trend continues. I was really hoping to see the hematoma all cleared up and no longer an issue, but no, it's still there. It's not a disaster, and it's really fairly small, people have had a lot worse throughout their entire healthy pregnancies, so I just have to hope for the best.
So just as with every other appointment, I'm told that I have 2 healthy babies, but a blood clot to go with them, and we'll just have to wait and see.
Here's the best screen capture I could get that showed both babies and the blood clot all in one. The main blood clot that they measured is that little dark spot at the top of the circled area. I'm not 100% certain that the rest of those spots are clots, they might be something to do with the cervix.
Ok, pictures are great, but what we really want is VIDEO!!! Here's the best 90 seconds or so of babies wiggling.
Ladies, please remember, for your own internet safety, edit your pictures and videos to crop out your personal information that's often splayed across the top of your ultrasound.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Meet the monkeys!
I gots pictures! I'll only post one because it's the best one and why force a bunch of mediocre blobbies in your faces.
Today I'm 8w6d and everything is looking good. I graduate from the fertility clinic and move on to the high risk ob with an appointment one week from today.
While we can't say for sure that the bleeding is over, she couldn't find any clots that we could predict bleeding. Does that make sense? It still might happen, but we didn't see anything today showing that it will happen. Ok, that sentence makes more sense.
Both babies are measuring just about right, the heart rates are between 155-160bpm which is perfect. And the doctor saw them each wiggle (I didn't notice it). While there are obviously no guarantees, things are looking as good as they can look at the moment.
On the symptom front, damn I'm a lucky bitch. Pretty much done feeling queasy. I sometimes feel a little bit of stretching in the abdomen which I love because it means they're growing, and I'm having some lower back ache from time to time, and I'm waking up constantly during the night. But for the most part, yeah, I'm really lucky.
Ok, I partially wanted to get all this out so that people who don't want ultrasound pictures in their faces might have some text before the pictures show up on screen and I think that's enough. So here we go!
Baby B is on the left and Baby A is on the right, and both are pretty much hanging upside down. So we're back to calling them monkeys.
Today I'm 8w6d and everything is looking good. I graduate from the fertility clinic and move on to the high risk ob with an appointment one week from today.
While we can't say for sure that the bleeding is over, she couldn't find any clots that we could predict bleeding. Does that make sense? It still might happen, but we didn't see anything today showing that it will happen. Ok, that sentence makes more sense.
Both babies are measuring just about right, the heart rates are between 155-160bpm which is perfect. And the doctor saw them each wiggle (I didn't notice it). While there are obviously no guarantees, things are looking as good as they can look at the moment.
On the symptom front, damn I'm a lucky bitch. Pretty much done feeling queasy. I sometimes feel a little bit of stretching in the abdomen which I love because it means they're growing, and I'm having some lower back ache from time to time, and I'm waking up constantly during the night. But for the most part, yeah, I'm really lucky.
Ok, I partially wanted to get all this out so that people who don't want ultrasound pictures in their faces might have some text before the pictures show up on screen and I think that's enough. So here we go!
Baby B is on the left and Baby A is on the right, and both are pretty much hanging upside down. So we're back to calling them monkeys.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
First Time Twins, Take 2
We found the source of the spotting. Under a gestational sac there was a little tear. Apparently something about as the placenta entrenches itself and grows, it sometimes tears a little bit of the lining, or something like that.
Honestly, I missed some of the finer details of the explanation. I was a little busy reacting to seeing 2 gestational sacs with yolks and fetal poles, firmly attached, and currently at the right size.
Apparently those little tears and thus a little bit of spotting is more common with twins. We don't know if they are identical or fraternal, but each has it's own individual sac which is a really good thing.
In six days when I go to my regularly scheduled ultrasound and we can see the heartbeats, dancing in the streets shall commence. Right now, I'm just kind of shaky. A little bit of coming down from fear, and a little bit of being elated at twins again.
I'm almost ashamed of myself for being SOOOOOOOOO fortunate to get this kind of lightening strikes twice do-over when so many others are struggling. I feel like a Survivor contestant who's won a reward and gets to pig out on all sorts of goodies in front of the other starving contestants. I'm thrilled for me, and just so sorry that I can't spread the wealth around.
Well, for the moment, it looks like this blog will be able to fulfill its original purpose - to document becoming parents for the first time to twins. Please, let me get it right this time.
Honestly, I missed some of the finer details of the explanation. I was a little busy reacting to seeing 2 gestational sacs with yolks and fetal poles, firmly attached, and currently at the right size.
Apparently those little tears and thus a little bit of spotting is more common with twins. We don't know if they are identical or fraternal, but each has it's own individual sac which is a really good thing.
In six days when I go to my regularly scheduled ultrasound and we can see the heartbeats, dancing in the streets shall commence. Right now, I'm just kind of shaky. A little bit of coming down from fear, and a little bit of being elated at twins again.
I'm almost ashamed of myself for being SOOOOOOOOO fortunate to get this kind of lightening strikes twice do-over when so many others are struggling. I feel like a Survivor contestant who's won a reward and gets to pig out on all sorts of goodies in front of the other starving contestants. I'm thrilled for me, and just so sorry that I can't spread the wealth around.
Well, for the moment, it looks like this blog will be able to fulfill its original purpose - to document becoming parents for the first time to twins. Please, let me get it right this time.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Ultrasounds - 12 weeks
In all the drama, I forgot to post the most recent ultrasound pictures! These were about 2 weeks ago when I was 12 weeks along. Everyone is the right size, heartbeats were both at 156 bpm, and one twin is sitting directly on top of the other.
During the ultra sound, we also watched one twin flip over which was funny to watch.
I'm not exactly sure what angle they did to get both in the picture here. They said that one was on top and forward and the other was on bottom and back. So I guess this would be like a side view where my stomach was facing left and my butt was facing right.
As you can see, they are looking somewhat human now! And they are imitating each other. Both were lying down basically flat with their heads facing the same direction. The only reason one is a little clearer than the other is because twin A was the one who was forward while twin B was a little farther away from the ultrasound device.
During the ultra sound, we also watched one twin flip over which was funny to watch.
I'm not exactly sure what angle they did to get both in the picture here. They said that one was on top and forward and the other was on bottom and back. So I guess this would be like a side view where my stomach was facing left and my butt was facing right.
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As you can see, they are looking somewhat human now! And they are imitating each other. Both were lying down basically flat with their heads facing the same direction. The only reason one is a little clearer than the other is because twin A was the one who was forward while twin B was a little farther away from the ultrasound device.
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